GHAZIABAD: A woman called the emergency helpline, confessed to smothering her 19-year-old daughter with a pillow for "falling into bad company" and gave the operator her address before fleeing from her house in Sahibabad on Sunday.
Police told TOI they rushed a team to the house in Garima Garden, Pasonda, and found Amreen's body, but the woman - Nafeesa Saifi (38) -- had switched off her mobile phone and escaped by then.
"Around 9.30pm, Nafeesa, who worked as a clerk at a private hospital in the city, called 112 and informed the operator that she had killed her daughter. When the operator asked her how, she said she smothered Amreen with a pillow after an argument," Bhuvneshwar Kumar, SHO of Tila Mor police station, said on Monday. "When asked why, Nafeesa said, 'Yeh galat sangati mein padh gayi thi (she fell into bad company).' And then she disconnected the call," the SHO added.
Initial investigation and statements by neighbours indicate Amreen started consuming drugs after losing her father Nazeemuddin Saifi in an accident a year ago. It appears that her relationship with her mother had been frayed since then.
"According to the neighbours, the teenager may have gotten addicted to drugs. She would go to GTB Nagar in north Delhi to consume drugs with her friends. In June, Nafeesa had filed a missing person complaint after Amreen ran away from the house. The teenager later gave a statement to the police that she had gone to Delhi after a fight with her mother," SHO Kumar said.
There were more altercations between the two. "On July 20, Nafeesa had to bring her back from Delhi again. And on the day of the killing, the two of them had an argument after Amreen tried to go to GTB Nagar. Nafeesa started beating her up. When the 19-year-old still tried to leave, Nafeesa pushed her on the bed and smothered her with a pillow," Kumar said.
Nafeesa had sent her other two children -- Nasreen (14) and Asad (10) - to a nearby market to fetch some vegetables when the incident took place.
Police said they have sent the body for a post-mortem examination, the results of which are pending.
